OPS 0180 (Ferret / Samos-F2 3), a U.S. Air Force/NRO electronic intelligence satellite for collecting Soviet radar and communications emissions. Final flight of the Thor DM-21 Agena-B from Vandenberg on 16 January 1963 successfully placed it in low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 306 kg
- Flight
- 40th
- of 40 Thor DM-21 Agena-B flights
- Date and time
- 16 January 1963, 21:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor DM-21 Agena-B
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 1E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1963-003
- Launches in 1963
- 3rd of 69
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